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Staff Report <br />APC # 2535-09 <br />®wner: Frick Limited Liability Company, LLC <br />Location: 109 Garst Street <br />Jurisdiction: City of South Bend <br />Requested Action: <br />The petitioner is requesting a zone change from LB Local Business District to LI Light Industrial <br />District to allow the continued use of a mechanical contracting and engineering business. <br />Land Uses and Zoning: <br />On site: On site is a small building containing a mechanical contracting and engineering <br />business. <br />North: To the north is a vacant commercial building and associated storage building <br />zoned MU Mixed Use District. <br />East: To the east is a vacant building zoned LB Local Business District. <br />South: To the south is a parking lot zoned MU Mixed Use District. <br />West: To the west is the Real Services kitchen zoned LI Light Industrial District. <br />District uses and development standards: <br />The LI Light Industrial District is established to .provide for development of office/warehouse, <br />warehouse/distribution, wholesale, assembly and manufacturing or processing facilities which are <br />clean, quiet, free of hazardous or objectionable elements such as noise, odor, dust, smoke, or <br />glare. Permitted uses in this district tend to generate heavy traffic, require extensive community <br />facilities, and may require limited amounts of outdoor storage. The LI District is also intended to <br />function as a transitional district between the more intense general industrial districts and other <br />less intense districts. <br />Site plan description: <br />The total area is 4,039 square feet. The 3,540 square foot building covers 88% of the site. There <br />is no on-site parking. In 1998, the Area Board of Zoning Appeals granted variances from the <br />parking spaces, lot size and side and rear setbacks. Additional variances will be needed for front <br />yard setback and landscaping. <br />Zoning and land use history & trends: <br />From 1996 to 2004, this property was zoned C Commercial. At that time, furnace sales and <br />service, with stock completely housed, and manufacturing and assembly, with not more than five <br />operating employees were permitted uses. When the new zoning map was passed in 2004, this <br />property was zoned LB Local Business District. The lot was subdivided in 1998. <br />Traffic and transportation considerations: <br />Garst has two lanes. <br />Utilities: <br />The site is serviced by municipal water and sanitary sewer. <br />Frick Limited Liability Company, LLC <br />#2535-09 <br />Page 1 of 1 <br />